Genocide
The Distance Between Law and Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8092911 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larissa Behrendt (0000-0003-3027-7273, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aboriginal History Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-8769 • E-ISSN: 1837-9389 |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/ah.25.2011.08 |
| OpenAlex | W1579411455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 2 |
When we left Port Augusta, when they took us away, we could only talk Aboriginal. We only knew one language and when we went down there, well we had to communicate somehow. Anyway, when I come back I couldn't even speak my own language. And that really buggered my identity up. It took me 40 odd years before I became a man in my own people's eyes, through Aboriginal law. Whereas I should've went through that when I was about 12 years of age. This same report concluded that the government policies of removing children were in breach of international laws prohibiting genocide and amounted to crimes against humanity. However, use of the term 'genocide' to describe the colonial experience has been met with skepticism from some quarters, particularly by those engaged in the attack on the 'black armband' view of history. 3 Yet the political posturing and semantic debates do nothing to dispel the feeling Indigenous people have that this is the word that adequately describes our experience as colonised peoples. This description of dispossession and the forced removal of children from the point of view of the victim/ survivor of historical and colonial processes is hard to fit into academic and legal discourse. As Marcia Langton has written: Some of us have lived through it, are living through it. It is not an exercise in historiography alone, and therefore presents problems beyond that of traditional historiography. 4
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |